Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
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Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves
Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves Yennie Jun Jul 14, 2026 41 8 7 Share My notes for this essay, written on a plane with no internet and no AI :D I have been observing, in myself and in those around me, a tendency to increasingly offload our thinking to AI. From trivial decisions to complex thinking, it is easy, convenient, and in some cases, encouraged, to use AI for researching, reasoning, and answering our every query. I recently read “The Perfect Match” by Ken Liu , a 2012 short story which describes this phenom
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